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In the Quebec City region, the sweeping change that is so regular from election to election it has become a constant followed its due course Tuesday, with the Liberal Party’s majority hold on ridings in the territory giving way to the Coalition Avenir Québec.

The simmering hockey war, between Quebec City fans seeking the return of the Nordiques to the National Hockey League, and, anybody who might get in their way, became an election issue Monday when Pauline Marois was booed as she moved through a crowd gathered at a sod turning for the arena where the new Nordiques would play.

It is ironic that one of Quebec’s most sovereignist artistes seems to have played a part in the undoing of the Bloc Québécois in Monday’s election, but it appears Guy A. Lepage finds himself in just that conundrum.

In a letter drafted hours before his death, NDP leader Jack Layton sent a caring message of hope to millions of Canadians struggling with a cancer of their own, while keeping mum on the type of illness that felled him.